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TIL: The apartheid government in South Africa had paid kill squads that silenced those that spoke out. Seemingly regardless of public profile or race

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J1QXl TIL that there has been a sharp increase in nursing homes in Thailand for elderly dementia patients from Europe, as the costs are significantly cheaper compared to care back in the West, while also allowing for significantly lower carer:patient ratios and individualized care.
arZM TIL that during the era of Genghis Khan, the Mongols celebrated a victory over the Russians by laying survivors on the ground, dropping a heavy wooden gate on them, and then having a victory banquet on top of it while the victims suffocated and were crushed to death
JYN81 TIL that Billy Joel released a cover of “Make you feel my love” a month before Bob Dylan released the original.
4DLN TIL that in the USA, the deadliest job is logging, followed by fishing. Taxi drivers are the most likely to be murdered, more than twice as likely than cops.
1arWd TIL the actor who plays the headmaster in Dead Poets Society, Norman LLoyd, is still very much alive. At the ripe age of 104, his latest screen credit was an appearance in the 2015 comedy Trainwreck.